Academic biography

Dr Jonathan Harris joined DCU in 2024 following posts at King's College London, Stranmillis University College, and his PhD at Cambridge University. He is a long-term visiting scholar at Queen's University Belfast.

He is a long-term fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and member of the Geographical Society of Ireland. He sits on the International Geographical Union's Commission for Political Geography.

Research

• Diplomacy, Development and Diaspora
• African and Francophone Postcolonial Worlds
• Geopolitics of Education

Jonathan works broadly on the social dynamics of radical contestation at the margins of national and international politics.

His research contributes to critical debates about international migration, social justice, and postcolonial citizenship by examining the geopolitical assemblages of diasporic and educational settings, with a particular focus on Francophone postcolonial contexts.